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Archive of entries posted on 6th January 2020
Monday Night Open Thread
Not all Persian generals get blown up by the U.S.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Whimper Fi?
So the U.S. is going to pull out of Iraq. Except that the U.S. isn’t.
I would say that I’m shocked by the confusion in the upper ranks of the military, but I was in the military.
Somebody is gonna go from wearing a star on their shoulder to wearing a star on their cap and saying, “Welcome to Hardee’s, would you like to our 2 for $5 mix and match?”
I’m assuming the one that drafted the earlier letter was … well, I’m gonna hold off for now. BGen Seely was born in Saigon, and has an impressive (at least on paper) record. (Oh, and the Marines use “BGen” for a brigadier general, right?) So, maybe he was just getting things ready in case those were the orders that came down. If that’s the case, some officer somewhere is gonna be slinging fries for releasing that letter.
I’ve seen some stupid stuff in my time in the Army. Good to know the Marines can be as much of a cluster-f*** as the Army can be.
I guess we’ll see how all this plays out.
If All Else Fails, Going to Prison Is an Option
Why More Couples Are Choosing To Live Apart
Simon Duncan / Phys.org / Jan. 3, 2020. . . Michelle had “built a very solid brick wall” with her current partner. It was living apart that maintained this wall. Another respondent, Graham, had experienced an “incredibly stressful time” after separation from his wife, with “nowhere to live and no real resources or anything.” So living apart was a “sort of self-preservation.”
Current partners could also be a problem. Wendy had lived with her partner, but found that “when he drinks he’s not a nice person … He was abusive both to me and my son.”
Living apart together was the solution. Maggie was repelled by her partner’s “hardcore” green lifestyle: his lack of washing, sporadic toilet flushing, and no central heating (which she needed for medical reasons). She also felt her partner looked down on her as intellectually inferior. So living apart together was “the next best thing” to her ideal of conjugal marriage.
Some men found the very idea of living with women threatening. For Ben, “not a big commitment merchant,” living apart together was at least “safe.” And several men in the study hoped to find more “compliant” partners abroad. Daniel, whose current, much younger, partner lived in Romania, explained how his “whole universe was blown apart” by divorce. And how he felt that “females in England … seem to want everything straight off in my opinion — I just didn’t want to communicate with English women at all.”
Given these fears, worries and aversions, why do these people stay with their partners at all? The answer is a desire for love and intimacy. As Wendy said: “I do love him…[and] I would love to be with him, if he was the person that he is when he’s not drinking.”
Maggie told us how she “really loved” her partner and how they had “set up an agreement” whereby “if I do your cooking and your washing and ironing can you take me out once a month and pay for me.”
(She really should re-phrase that.)
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Straight Line of the Day: China Has Instituted a “Social Credit Score.” In the U.S., …
The Musical Walrus: The Song Remains the Same
Got a favorite song? I got tons of them, artists too. I’ll be returning to some of those in the future but today I want look at a song I’m possibly excessively obsessive about.
“Ça plane pour moi”
The music was composed by Lou Deprijck, Yvan Lacomblez wrote the lyrics. The song was covered by many artists, though Plastic Bertrand’s original recording was the most successful, reaching No. 8 on the UK charts in the summer of 1978.
I want to address the “covered by many artists”. At this moment in time I have versions by these artists on my IPod.
In no particular order.
- defiXions
- Headcoatees
- Tiger Bell
- Deborah Dutcher
- Les 3 Fromages
- Leila K. (Several versions)
- Plastic Bertrand
- LTNO & THe Dead Sexy Inc.
- Team Genius
- Giullaume Canet
- Kenton Chen (I Chi Du dou. Chinese version)
- Les San Cullotes
- Los Banditos
- Marais Choral Group
- Midwife Crisis Hebammenchor
- Simu & Simu
- Sonic Youth
- Spider Nick & the Maddogs
- Tortilla Flat
- 4 to the Bar
- Alec Mansion & Philippe Lafontaine
- The Anarchy Arias
- Annie Dufresne
- Clara Furey
- Eddy Et Les Vedettes
- Landroid
- Morton Valence
- Paula
- Rumble On The Beach
- Salt and Pepper
- St. Animal
- Team Genius
- Whities (Several versions)
- Whyte Horses
- Wanastowi Vjecy
Whew! How many of these artists have you heard of? There are more, I just haven’t added them yet on iTunes. Below is my favorite video version. It is a group from Switzerland called Tears. If any one can tell me how to get the audio on my IPod then all I can say is, Bacon to you!
With War On The Horizon…
Iran kills an American in December.
The U.S. responds with airstrikes against Iranian forces in Syria and Iraq.
Iran directs an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The U.S. takes out the planners of the Iranian operations.
Now President Trump and Iran’s Ali Khamenei are going on Twitter measuring peckers. This probably won’t end well. It will end worse for Iran, which perhaps they’ll realize. And, if they don’t, they’ll get their wish of becoming martyrs.
So, with all that, what’s the top news story this Monday morning? The Golden Globes. Well, not the Golden Globes themselves. Nobody knows nor cares who won what. But the opening monologue by Ricky Gervais did garner some attention after he insulted everybody in Hollywood. It was glorious.
Now I feel like I want to thumb my nose at, well, just about everybody. Let’s all report back tonight and share our experiences.